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Oct 2026
QIAP: A Quantum-Inspired Authentication Protocol with BB84-Based Channel Monitoring
Authentication in quantum-aware communication settings requires mechanisms that verify user legitimacy while also assessing whether the communication channel exhibits excessive disturbance. This paper presents QIAP, a stateful hybrid framework that combines classical commitment-based challenge-response authentication w...
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